hey guys, not sure if its been posted before. but as the title states welds that make you go weak at the knee's, im sure most fabricators on here check out the welds on the stainless rails at shopping centers, or the alloy welds on general shop items such as ladders ect ect, unless im just weird ? hahaha, anywho id like people to post some pics you may have seen on the internet or even in real life of the most sexiest beads you have seen, doesent matter what material mild/alloy/stainless/titanium ect ect.. some are probley going to be done by machine but its still something that can be stared at for hours and hours. ha. heres a couple of pics to kick it off :

I've seen some awesome beads at work, these Korean blokes I work with weld like robots side by side comparing them to a robot weld u can't pick the difference and they are just as fast

I'll try get some pics, most are just stainless steam pipe welds with about a 10mm wall thickness so it takes a few runs on top of each other to fill up the butt weld

I'm also the same as u I check out welds on all random shit I see around in my day to day life

I'v seen a couple pipe welders that looked awsome. Walky walky all the way round. Problem was freehand on anything else it looked below average.

Heres one i'd saved. I can see it's been weaved over the top but regardless it looks pretty (i guess thats the problem with tig, very easy to trick people)two pass tig stringer then weave.jpg62.17K131 downloads

I can walk and get a semi desent result on pipe work.. South african bloke I worked with was amazing.. first time I saw his work I had to ask if it had actually been done be a human.. sooo perfect.. But he was slooow..

With a rotator I could do a 3" pipe but in about 25 mins start to finish.. give or take depending on how it was tacked together..

laying down single beads isnt very hard to do but try laying down multiple beads and linking them into each other its a lot harder then just laying down one single bead

sorry about photo quality
these photos were taken from my old job
origin gas fired turbine power station so the welds had to be very high quality all welds get N.D.T and hydro tested
stainless steam pipe full purged, multiple runs / root run, filler run, capping pass
gas used was Argon + Hydrogen
Helium is generally added to increase heat input (increase welding speed or weld penetration). Hydrogen will result in cleaner looking welds and also increase heat input, however, Hydrogen may promote porosity or hydrogen cracking.

no wonder why scaffold takes so long to get built DSC00061.JPG353.82K52 downloads

any one who has done the high pressure weld ticket will know how hard this is to do
to be able to get the ticket u must complete 2 different welds 2G position and 5G position
5G position is very hard because u need to be able to weld over head position where your welding from under the work piece looking up above u
this weld is vertical up and take note there are no stop and starting marks in the weld this is very impressive work that mostly boiler makers only understand
u must have full penetration, zero suck back, weld penetration must not exceed 2mm, zero under cut, weld reinforcement must not exceed 2mm on each end of the weld length
if your wondering what it is, its a big T piece